The story's not abandoned, just abandoned. Shame you had a good thing going here.

Wonderful story! A pity it ended on a cliff-hanger. I know you said in your public announcement that you'd come back to it... but that was almost Four Years ago. I think it's safe to assume this story is dead, unfortunately. It is a pity - it's very good. If you ever do come back to it, I think it would be very worthwhile. I'd support you the whole way! :D

I hope all is well with you and your life situation. I wish you the very best! :)

Keelah se'lai,
Rogen

First of all, powder and shell guns like the ones you say the soldiers were using at the funeral do not have "more stopping power." Force equals mass times acceleration. (FMA). Mass of the projectile is not the only thing that matters. Acceleration matters too. In the case of mass accelerator weapons, the amount of speed at which they propel the tiny particles more than makes up for the fact that the projectiles are smaller. Even though they're many times smaller, they hit like they're actually many times bigger. The difference between them is like hitting someone with a pebble and hitting them with a speeding train.

Secondly, nobody would prefer powder and shell weapons over mass acceleration weapons, for the reasons I stated above. Eezo allows armor to be created with gravitational fields that make it ridiculously dense. So strong that only weapons that also use mass technology could hope to counter it. Same goes with shields. If Tali fired a revolver at the LOKI mechs, she would barely make a tiny chip in their armor. She'd need a whole firing squad of people using revolvers to bring down one LOKI mech.

Thirdly, criminals and poor people do not still use powder and shell weapons like revolvers. Guns are stupidly cheap in the Mass Effect universe. You can hear someone mentioning that they bought a predator pistol for a measly 15 credits, in ME2. It would actually be more expensive to get a hold of old school weapons because nobody mines the materials needed for that anymore. Its like how samurai katanas would be expensive nowadays.

Fourthly, in the battle of Torfan Alliance Marines were not using powder and shell weapons. By that time, they had already discovered the prothean data cache on mars which taught humanity how to use eezo and the mass effect. They found that even before they even opened the Charon relay. They already had mass accelerator weapons, albeit ones that were slightly worse than what the batarians would have had. For frame of referance, Shepard hadn't even been born yet when the Prothean ruins on mars were discovered.

God I hate it when I find fics like this only to find they died nearly 3 years ago. You are a amazing writer, this is some of the best material I have ever read on this site. I can only hope you are lurking somewhere, thinking about this work, it deserves to be finished. Though with the abomination that was ME3 I wouldnt be surpused that you up and left entirely.

Awwww, Just as it was getting exciting. Sorry to hear about those problems. I wish that you would continue this.

You are the fifth author I found that has mislabeled which Shepard this about. You have it listed as a Female Shepard/Tali story not a Male Shepard.

Hey man, I feel for you, I wish you luck, and I hope you make it through the hard times. The lord knows we've all had 'em.

Dude, there's gotta be SOME lemon I mean come on. This is gonna effect the way i look at you. No im just kiddin' man, but really everyone needs a little lemon.

Yes, to the Lemon. I think it would show how far their relationship has come, and how much they trust each other.

Dam this been good reading

Aaaaww very nice D well written with good story conecpt )

Awwh man I'm sorry to hear that.. I wish you all the best and don't worry thing will get better, people like you and your stories have helped me through the hard times so never give up my friend.

I hope everything's going alright in RL. This story has been one of my favorite ones of all time. Good luck with everything!

I hope you get everything sorted out, man. This is one of my favorite stories.

Hope you get all that stuff cleared up in RL. Good luck.